Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.

Best friend, my well-spring in the wilderness!

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Do not teach treason to your friends and to other seekers. Dress and manners have become polished now; but the inner man has deteriorated in virtue and faith!

Choose your friends carefully. Your enemies will choose you.

May God defend me from my friends; I can defend myself from my enemies.

If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends

A friend might well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

Ones oldest friend is the best.

One of the greatest titles we can have is old friend. Today is the day to invest in those people we hope will call us ‘old friend in the years to come.”

Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you.

See everything: overlook a great deal: correct a little.

I awoke with devout thanksgiving for my friends.

A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they’re not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they’re not so bad.

Friendship redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half

In your free time, you will choose who to hang out with. If you were to show me your friends, I could tell you your future.

Others because you did not keepThat deep-sworn vow have been friends of mine;Yet always when I look death in the face,When I clamber to the heights of sleep,Or when I grow excited with wine,Suddenly I...

If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

I know someday you’ll have a beautiful life. I know you’ll be a sun in somebody else’s sky. But why can’t it be mine?

Friends, though absent, are still present.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

One of the greatest titles we can have is “old friend”. We never appreciate how important old friends are until we are older. The problem is we need to start our old friendships when we...

As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.

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

A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

Live so that your friends can defend you but never have to.

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.

Choose friends who will stick to you till the end, through thick and thin.

To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

The most successful marriages, gay or straight, even if they begin in romantic love, often become friendships. It’s the ones that become the friendships that last.

Few delights can equal the presence of one whom we trust utterly.

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.

The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else...

We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

The man who won’t loan money isn’t going to have many friends – or need them.

Every man passes his life in the search after friendship.

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.

In comradeship is danger countered best.

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair.

What a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised

A friend is not only someone who you can confide in, it is someone who can mirror the trust you have shown by confiding in you as well.

A friend is what the heart needs all the time.

Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.

A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship