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.
- Abraham Lincoln

May God preserve me from the love of a friend who will never dare to rebuke me.
- Thomas Merton

A friend in need is a friend indeed.
- John Ray

Friendship is equality.
- Pythagoras

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
- Dale Carnegie

Friendship! Mysterious cement of the soul! Sweet'ner of life, and solder of society!
- Robert Blair

Friends feel each others' joys and sorrows as their own.
- Unknown

One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are barely possible.
- Henry Adams

Friends are the family we choose for ourselves.
- Edna Buchanan

Friends are much better tried in bad fortune than good.
- Aristotle

Our friends see the best in us, and by that very fact call forth the best from us.
- Black

True friendship is an identity of souls rarely to be found in the world. Only between like natures can friendships be altogether worthy and enduring.
- Gandhi

The perfect friendship of two men is the deepest and highest sentiment of which the finite mind is capable; women miss the best in life.
- Gertrude Atherton

Friendship is blessed, not so much for the friends it makes for us, which has an element of gain, but the friend it makes of us, which has the element of giving.
- Henry S. Haskins

A man, Sir, should keep his friendships in constant repair.
- Samuel Johnson