Friendship takes place between those who have an affinity for one another, and is a perfectly natural and inevitable result.
—Henry D. Thoreau
Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
—Addison
Mutual comprehension makes for friendship, and militates against love; for love—like modern society papers—must have a “puzzle column” for those that take it in.
—Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler
Whatever the number of a man’s friends, there will be times in his life when he has one too few.
—Bulwer-Lytton
The friendship of a great man is a gift of the gods.
—Voltaire