—Bulwer-Lytton

Friendship is too pure a pleasure for a mind cankered with ambition, or the lust of power and grandeur.

—Junius

The firmest friendships have been formed in mutual adversity as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame.

—Colton

Between friends, frequent reproofs make the friendship distant.

—Confucius

We must accept or refuse one another as we are. I could tame a hyena more easily than my Friend. He is a material which no tool of mine will work.

—Henry D. Thoreau

A true and noble friendship shrinks not at the greatest of trials.