A true friend to a man is a friend to all his friends.
—Wycherley
Half a word from your friend says more to you than many phrases, for you are accustomed to think with him. You comprehend all the sentiments which animate him, and he knows it. You are two intelligences which add to and complement each other.
—Pierre Loti
Friendship! mysterious cement of the soul!
Sweet’ner of life! and solder of society!
—Robert Blair
Friendship is first, Friendship last. But it is equally impossible to forget our Friends, and to make them answer to our ideal. When they say farewell, then indeed we begin to keep them company.
—Henry D. Thoreau
In friendship we see the faults which may be prejudicial to our friends. In love we see no faults, but those by which we ourselves suffer.
—La Bruyère
Come back! ye friendships long departed!
That like o’erflowing streamlets started,
And now are dwindled one by one,
To stony channels in the sun!
Come back, ye friends whose lives are ended,
Come back, with all that light attended,
Which seemed to darken and decay
When ye arose and went away.
—Longfellow