—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.