If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
He who looks for advantage out of friendship strips it all of its nobility.
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else.
In a friend you find a second self.
Of my friends, I am the only one I have left.
I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end ... 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.
Be a friend to thyself, and others will be so too.
Friendship is neither a formality nor a mode: it is rather a life.
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
Friendship's a noble name, 'tis love refined.
A friend is, as it were, a second self.
Friend: One who knows all about you and loves you just the same.
A friend is like a poem.
A friend is a present you give to yourself.
A friend is someone you can do nothing with, and enjoy it.
Friendship needs no words-it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
Two friends-two bodies with one soul inspired.
In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge.
