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The value of friends has always been a natural thing. I prefer too many to too few.

One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.

Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

My dad said to me growing up: 'When all is said and done, if you can count all your true friends on one hand, you're a lucky man.'

You can never have too many friends.

You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are decidedly bad.