"Friendship is like rivers, and the strand of seas, and the air, common to all the world; but tyrants, and evil customs, wars, and want of love, have made them proper and peculiar."

"When I choose my friend, I will not stay till I have received a kindness; but I will choose such a one that can do me many if I need them; but I mean such kindnesses which make me wiser, and which make me better."

"Choose for your friend him that is wise and good, and secret and just, ingenious and honest, and in those things which have a latitude, use your own liberty."

"A good man is the best friend, and therefore soonest to be chosen, longer to be retained; and indeed, never to be parted with, unless he cease to be that for which he was chosen."

"Secrete amicos admone, lauda palam."

"Amicum lædere ne joco quidem licet."

"Amici vitium ni feras, prodis tuum."

"I thought you and he were hand-in-glove."

"It's an owercome sooth fo' age an' youth, And it brooks wi' nae denial, That the dearest friends are the auldest friends, And the young are just on trial."

"'Tis something to be willing to commend; But my best praise is, that I am your friend."

"For whoever knows how to return a kindness he has received must be a friend above all price."

"For to cast away a virtuous friend, I call as bad as to cast away one's own life, which one loves best."

"Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love, and to be loved, is the greatest happiness of existence."

"Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship."

"To hear him speak, and sweetly smile You were in Paradise the while."

"Amicitia semper prodest, amor etiam aliquando nocet."

"Perhaps it is the deprivation that keeps hearts connected. Once everything is fulfilled, wings sprout in everyone’s heart, and they fly off to different destinations. How can a relationship stay warm with just the body, when the heart is absent?""

"Not for the body, but for the heart; companion and company are needed."

"Dear is my friend—yet from my foe, as from my friend, comes good: My friend shows what I can do, and my foe what I should."

"Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided."

"Idem velle et idem nolle ea demum firma amicitia est."

"There is no treasure the which may be compared unto a faithful friend; Gold soone decayeth, and worldly wealth consumeth, and wasteth in the winde; But love once planted in a perfect and pure minde indureth weale and woe; The frownes of fortune, come they never so unkinde, cannot the same overthrowe."

"Mine own familiar friend."

"Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend."

"Faithful are the wounds of a friend."

"A man that hath friends must show himself friendly; and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother."

"Absent or dead, still let a friend be dear, (A sigh the absent claims, the dead a tear.)"

"There is nothing that is meritorious but virtue and friendship; and indeed friendship itself is only a part of virtue."

"Quod tuum'st meum'st; omne meum est autem tuum."

"Prosperity makes friends and adversity tries them."

"Cætera fortunæ, non mea, turba fuit."

"Scilicet ut fulvum spectatur in ignibus aurum Tempore in duro est inspicienda fides."

"Vulgus amicitias utilitate probat."

"We have been friends together In sunshine and in shade."

"Forsooth, brethren, fellowship is heaven and lack of fellowship is hell; fellowship is life and lack of fellowship is death; and the deeds that ye do upon the earth, it is for fellowship's sake that ye do them."

"Oh, call it by some better name, For Friendship sounds too cold."

"The wiser a man becomes the more numerous are the men whom he dislikes, only if he is really wise, he does not tell anyone of his dislikes, unless he finds it necessary to cement a friendship with a man (or a woman) by talking about a mutual enemy. There is no stronger bond of friendship than a common enemy."

"My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship."

"Friends are like melons. Shall I tell you why? To find one good, you must a hundred try."

"A true friend is forever a friend."

"Women, like princes, find few real friends."

"Let the falling out of friends be a renewing of affection."

"Nulla fides regni sociis omnisque potestas Impatiens consortis erit."

"Quien te conseja encobria de tus amigos. Engañar te quiere assaz, y sin testigos."

"Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend."

"My designs and labors And aspirations are my only friends."

"Alas! to-day I would give everything To see a friend's face, or hear a voice That had the slightest tone of comfort in it."

"I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me."

"The better part of one's life consists of his friendships."