We inspire friendship in men when we have contracted friendship with the gods..

Why can't we get all the people together in the world that we really like and then just stay together? I guess that wouldn't work. Someone would leav….

I love my friends very much, but I find that it is of no use to go to see them. I hate them commonly when I am near them. They belie themselves and d….

We never exchange more than three words with a Friend in our lives on that level to which our thoughts and feelings almost habitually rise..

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end... I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one fr….

It's all love or sex these days. Friendship is almost as quaint and outdated a notion as chastity. Soon friends will be like the elves and the pixies….

You are the treasure custodian, cleaning the moon for me, scouring the sky so the stars would shine bright..

Greatly his foes he dreads, but more his friends; He hurts me most who lavishly commends..

The vital air of friendship is composed of confidence. Friendship perishes in proportion as this air diminishes..

Distance of Time and Place do really cure what they seem to aggravate; and taking Leave of our Friends resembles taking Leave of the World, concernin….

Yes, we must ever be friends; and of all who offer you friendship Let me be ever the first, the truest, the nearest and dearest..

It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to s….

That part of your friend which it is your privilege to contemplate in your adversity.

The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, alway….

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth..

Our friend and we were invited aboard on a party of pleasure, which is to last forever. His chair was ready first, and he has gone before us. We coul….

The permanency of most friendships depends upon the continuity of good fortune..

How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends, that we might go and meet their ideal cousins..

One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be stranger to him as he is mor….

There is no hope of joy except in human relations..

The language of friendship is not words but meanings..