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.

Everybody forgets the basic thing: people are not going to love you unless you love them.

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.

The capacity for friendship usually goes with highly developed civilizations. The ability to cultivate people differs by culture and class; but on the whole, educated people have more ways to make friends... . In England, for instance, you find everyone in your class has read the same books. Here, people grope for something in common-like a newly engaged girl who came to me and said, "It's absolutely wonderful! His uncle and my cousin were on the same football team."