Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

The holy passion of friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money

It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.

We are all travelers in the wilderness of the world, and the best that we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.