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| The firmest of friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame | | Charles Caleb Colton | |
| The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasure; ours has severest virtue for its basis, and such a friendship ends not but with life. | | Joseph Addison | |
| The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures | | Joseph Addison | |
| The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it's the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him with his friend. | | Ralph Waldo Emerson | |
| The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own. | | Benjamin Disraeli | |
| The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover. | | Joseph Addison | |
| The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole life - time, if not asked to lend money | | Mark Twain | |
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| The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this? | | Henry David Thoreau | |
| The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one | | Ralph Waldo Emerson | |
| The only service a friend can really render is to keep your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself | | George Bernard Shaw | |
| The opinions which we hold of one another, our relations with friends and kinfolk are in no sense permanent, save in appearance, but are as eternally fluid as the sea itself | | Marcel Proust | |
| The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong | | Mark Twain | |
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| There are people who are very resourceful, at being remorseful, and who apparently feel that the best way to make friends is to do something terrible and then make amends | | Ogden Nash | |
| There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere man | | Edgar Allan Poe | |
| Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy - for friendship's sake | | William Blake | |
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| True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost. | | Charles Caleb Colton | |
| We are all travellers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend | | Robert Louis Stevenson | |
