So long as there is still a little friendship and a desire to help each other-so long as all that is real ... that is sufficient for a man's short span of life.

The capacity for friendship usually goes with highly developed civilizations. The ability to cultivate people differs by culture and class; but on the whole, educated people have more ways to make friends... . In England, for instance, you find everyone in your class has read the same books. Here, people grope for something in common-like a newly engaged girl who came to me and said, "It's absolutely wonderful! His uncle and my cousin were on the same football team."

Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

A new friend is like new wine; when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.

This communicating of a mans self to his friend works two contrary effects; for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.

There's nothing worth the wear of winning, But laughter and the love of friends.

Old friends, we say, are best, when some sudden disillusionment shakes our faith in a new comrade.

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him.

It is not, as somebody once wrote, the smell of corn bread that calls us back from death; it is the lights and signs of love and friendship.