Friendship is not always the sequel of obligation

The happiest business in all the world is that of making friends, And no investment on the street pays larger dividends, For life is more than stocks and bonds, and love than rate percent, And he who gives in friendship's name shall reap what he has

I am treating you as my friend, asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses. Katherine Mansfield I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

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

Nothing is great like friendship on earth, No jewel No pearl has got it's worth. No one except a friend can be trusted, Your life will never ever get rusted.

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

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

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity.

The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.

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