The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.

Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference.

We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.

Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.

False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.