"There is nothing in the world more trustworthy than a friend one is sure will betray everything confided to him, nothing more trustworthy if only one is careful about what is confided to him. it is unsafe to ask a friend to tell this or that, but if one confides to him under the pledge of secrecy something one wishes to come out, then one can be absolutely sure, for then it must come out. Furthermore, it is a rare good fortune if in turn such a friend has a friend, and in turn this friend has a girlfriend-then it travels with the speed of lightning."

"The absolute condition for friendship is unity in a life-view. If a person has that, he will not be tempted to base his friendship on obscure feelings or on indefinable sympathies. As a consequence, he will not experience these ridiculous shifts, so that one day he has a friend and the next day he does not. He will not fail to appreciate the significance of the indefinable sympathies, because, strictly speaking, a person is certainly not a friend of everyone with whom he shares a life-view but neither does he stop with only the mysteriousness of the sympathies. A true friendship always requires consciousness and is therefore freed from being infatuation. The life-view in which one is united must be a positive view."

"Friends need to tell each other the hard truth and friendships require mutual respect."

"I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light."

"Choose your friends, then treat them as friends; do not regard them like slaves or servants, but associate with them frankly and simply and generously; not saying one thing of them and thinking something else."

"Got a lot of haters and a lot of homies; some friends and some phony."

"Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success — yours or his."

"Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of."

"Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends."

"I merely point out to you that, as a matter of fact, certain persons do exist with an enormous capacity for friendship and for taking delight in other people's lives; and that such person know more of truth than if their hearts were not so big."

"It is nothing against the validity of a friendship that the parties to it have not a mutual resemblance. There must be a basis of agreement, but the structure reared upon it may contain a thousand disparities."

"Sometimes, friendship may change the world."

"Chi si trova senz’ amici, e come un corpo senz’ anima."

"One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and more symbolic form) the punishments that we should like, but are unable, to inflict upon our enemies."

"Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves many things, but, above all, the power of going out of one's self and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another."

"Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you."

"Never explain — your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyhow."

"The finest friendships are between those who can do without each other."

"The difficulty is not so much to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for."

"Friends . . old friends. . ."

"Friendship is often outgrown; and his former child's clothes will no more fit a man than some of his former friendships."

"A friend who offers help without asking for explanations is a treasure beyond price."

"Defend me from my friends; I can defend myself from my enemies."

"If displeased with any man, do all you can to prevent his seeing it, for otherwise he will become estranged. And occasions often arise when he might and would have served you had you not lost him by showing your dislike. Of this I have had experience to my own profit. For once and again I have felt ill-disposed towards some one who not being aware of my hostility has afterwards helped me when I needed help and proved my good friend."

"Hazer de los amigos maestros, penetrando el útil del aprender con el gusto del conversar."

"He cast off his friends, as a huntsman his pack; For he knew, when he pleas'd, he could whistle them back."

"I love everything that's old, — old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine."

"Your friend is your needs answered. He is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving. And he is your board and your fireside. For you come to him with your hunger, and you seek him for peace."

"Do not befriend an evil man and no evil will overtake you."

"A friendship that can be ended didn't ever start."

"'Tis great Confidence in a Friend to tell him your Faults, greater to tell him his."

"Thou canst not joke an Enemy into a Friend; but thou may'st a Friend into an Enemy."

"There are three faithful friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money."

"Of all the means which wisdom acquires to ensure happiness throughout the whole of life, by far the most important is friendship."

"The wise man … needs no bribe or feast or palace to draw friends to him. He is supremely fair. He angles with himself and with no other bait."

"The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it."

"The only way to have a good friend is to be one."

"Our friends early appear to us as representatives of certain ideas, which they never pass or exceed. They stand on the brink of the ocean of thought and power, but they never take a single step that would bring them there."

"A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may think aloud."

"Friend more divine than all divinities."

"Best friend, my well-spring in the wilderness!"

"But a companion and a friend shall be turned to an enemy."

"Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up.""

"Es gibt wenig aufrichtige Freunde. Die Nachfrage ist auch gering."

"To insure the probable continuance of friendship there must be a parity of station and fortune, and some kindred pursuit."

"Other dogs bite only their enemies, whereas I bite also my friends in order to save them."