Prosperity makes friends and adversity tries tliem.

A friend is one who dislikes the same people that you dislike.

Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure.

A true friend is the best possession.

Friendship is a plant which must be often watered.

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but not in visiting them too often.

A hedge between keeps friendships green.

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

One enemy is too many; a hundred friends too few.

That friendship may be at once fond and lasting, there must not only be equal virtue on each part, but virtue of the same kind; not only the same end must be proposed, but the same means must be approved by both.

I observed once to Goethe ... that when a friend is with us we do not think the same of him as when he is away. He replied, "Yes! because the absent friend is yourself, and he exists only in your head; whereas the friend who is present has an individuality of his own, and moves according to laws of his own, which cannot always be in accordance with those which you form for yourself."

True happiness is of a retired nature and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self; and, in the next, from the friendship and conversations of a few select companions.