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When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

Acquaintances we meet, enjoy, and can easily leave behind; but friendship grows deep roots.

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.

Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue.

Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything.

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.

No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends, as to give them no cause to miss him less.

Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.