"True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island..to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing."

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: “What! You too? I thought I was the only one.” – C.S. Lewis

“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.”

“Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.”

“Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.”

“True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.”

“Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.”

“Friendship is Love without his wings!”

“The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.”

“Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.”

“I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man’s milk and restorative cordial.”

“Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.”

“I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post, which any human power can give.”

“But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.”

“This is what I miss, Cordelia: not something that’s gone, but something that will never happen. Two old women giggling over their tea.”

“The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.” 

"Friendship and love blind every man to their interests."

"Keep your friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent"

“As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.”

“True friendship can exist only between equals.” 

Boldness be my friend.

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.