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Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue.

Friendships are among the most fundamental of human needs.

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.

I think that it is important to be gregarious, and that friendships are not just a leisure pursuit, that they are an integral part of what it is to be human, and one does better work if one has a circle of friends that is active.

A friend is a beloved mystery; dearest always because he is not ourself, and has something in him which it is impossible for us to fathom. If it were not so, friendship would lose its chief zest.

When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.

Friendship is something that is cultivated.

I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.