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.

We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends behave to us

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

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

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

Friends are a comfort in misfortune but one should not make them unhappy by seeking their sympathy...

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.

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.

She was weak and helpless, shaken in mind and nerve. It was to take her at a disadvantage to obtrude love upon her at such a time.

Human nature is a strange mixture, Watson. You see that even a villain and murderer can inspire such affection that his brother turns to suicide when he learns that his neck is forfeited.