I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.

Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.

A friend is a second self, so that our consciousness of a friend's existence...makes us more fully conscious of our own existence.

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge.

Men cannot know each other till they have 'eaten salt together'.

Anyone who has no need of anybody but himself is either a beast or a God.

For though the wish for friendship comes quickly, friendship does not.

When people are friends, they have no need of justice, but when they are just, they do need friendship in addition; and in the realm of the just things, the most just seems to be what involves friendship.

Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him.

I had no friends who would call upon me and break the monotony of my daily existence.

Now, Watson,' said Holmes, (...) 'you'll come with me, won't you?' 'If I can be of use.' 'Oh, a trusty comrade is always of use. And a chronicler still more so. My room at The Cedars is a double-bedded one.' (...) 'You have a grand gift of silence, Watson,' said he. 'It makes you quite invaluable as a companion. Pon my word, it is a great thing for me to have someone to talk to, for my own thoughts are not over-pleasant.

The people God put in your life are not there by accident. Don't get so busy that you just give them your leftover time.