A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.
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.
A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative.
Well, a friend in need is a friend indeed.
A friend in power is a friend lost.
If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
I am said to be difficult of acquaintance, unwilling to meet any one half way, and showing a social manner which is easy, not diffident, but formal and unresponsive, tending constantly to hold people off.
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.