A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances; if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Mr. Wickham is blessed with such happy manners as may ensure his MAKING friends–whether he may be equally capable of RETAINING them, is less certain.

Never injure a friend, even in jest.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles. What do we live for if not to make the world less difficult for each other?

We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young.

Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly

Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.

I loathe a friend whose gratitude grows old, a friend who takes his friend’s prosperity but will not voyage with him in his grief

Those that want friends to open themselves unto are cannibals of their own hearts.

Life is nothing without friendship.

Life has no pleasure higher or nobler than that of friendship

Where there are friends there is wealth.

States have no friends, they only have interests.

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

It is not for minds like ours to give or to receive flatter; yet the praises of sincerity have ever been permitted to the voice of friendship

We talk of choosing our friends, but friends are self-elected

Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.

Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.

Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren’t we already there?

We shall never have friends if we expect to find them without fault.

A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.

I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort...

Friends are proved by adversity.

Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

Friendship is held to be the severest test of character.

A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

I have always laid it down as a maxim –and found it justified by experience –that a man and a woman make far better friendships than can exist between two of the same sex –but...

A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.

It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.

Let your best be for your friend…

A friend is someone you can do nothing with, and enjoy it.

There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.

In order to have friends, you must first be one.

A friend is, as it were, a second self.

Friendship demands the ability to do without it.

No guest is so welcome in a friend’s house that he will not become a nuisance after three days

When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.

It’s a sad thing not to have friends, but it is even sadder not to have enemies.

I have had, and may have still, a thousand friends, as they are called, in life, who are like one’s partners in the waltz of this world –not much remembered when the ball is over.

Friends, such as we desire, are dreams and fables.

Little friends may prove great friends.

Friendships begin with liking or gratitude roots that can be pulled up.

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

The friends that have it I do wrongWhen ever I remake a song,Should know what issue is at stake:It is myself that I remake.

Purchase not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love.

Life without a friend is death without a witness.