Friendship admits of difference of character, as love does that of sex.

To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

It is characteristic of spontaneous friendship to take on first, without enquiry and almost at first sight, the unseen doings and unspoken sentiments of our friends; the parts known give us evidence enough that the unknown parts cannot be much amiss.

I only asked my friends to be friendly and polite, I found them indifferent and censorious; The one I left to silence, the other to reproach: God send me over all such friends victorious.

I cannot love a friend whose love is words.

To throw away an honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away.

I am a hoarder of two things: documents and trusted friends.

Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare. And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.

So long as there is still a little friendship and a desire to help each other-so long as all that is real ... that is sufficient for a man's short span of life.