The two most important things in life are good friends and a strong bull pen.
There is no wilderness like a life without friends; friendship multiplies blessings and minimizes misfortunes; it is a unique remedy against adversity, and it soothes the soul.
There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.
A cheer, then, for the noblest breast That fears not danger's post; And like the lifeboat, proves a friend, When friends are wanted most.
I know what things are good: friendship and work and conversation.
Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
No medicine is more valuable, none more efficacious, none better suited to the cure of all our temporal ills than a friend to whom we may turn for consolation in time of trouble, and with whom we may share our happiness in time of joy.
My only sketch, profile, of heaven is a large blue sky, and larger than the biggest I have seen in June-and in it are my friends-every one of them.
If I don't have friends, then I ain't nothing.
Brotherhood is the very price and condition of man's survival.
One thing everybody in the world wants and needs is friendliness.
A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.
We take care of our health, we lay up money, we make our roof tight and our clothing sufficient, but who provides wisely that he shall not be wanting in the best property of all-friends.
There is no physician like a true friend.
There is nothing meritorious but virtue and friendship.
The bird, a nest; the spider, a web; man, friendship.
True happiness ... arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
It was such a joy to see thee. I wish I could tell how much thee is to my life. I always turn to thee as a sort of rest.
Today a man discovered gold and fame, Another flew the stormy seas; Another set an unarmed world aflame, One found the germ of a disease. But what high fates my path attend: For I-today-I found a friend.
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
