There are very few honest friends-the demand is not particularly great.

There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.

There have been some friendships lost over this. That's the most difficult for me. I find it very uncomfortable to know that I was at one time close friends with someone, and because of jealousies and misunderstandings and so on, these friendships have dissolved.

There is a magic in the memory of schoolboy friendships; it softens the heart and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart.

"A friend is someone who thinks you're a good egg even though you're slightly cracked."

There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first... When you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

There is a strange charm in the thoughts of a good legacy, or the hopes of an estate, which wondrously removes or at least alleviates the sorrow that men would otherwise feel for the death of friends.

There is a wide world out there, my friend, full of pain, but filled with joy as well. The former keeps you on the path of growth, and the latter makes the journey tolerable

There is always something to do. There are hungry people to feed, naked people to clothe, sick people to comfort and make well. And while I don't expect you to save the world I do think it's not asking too much for you to love those with whom you sleep, share the happiness of those whom you call friend, engage those among you who are visionary and remove from your live those who offer you depression, despair and disrespect.

There is an electricity about a friendship relationship. We are both more relaxed and more sensitive, more creative and more reflective, more energetic and more casual, more excited and more serene. It is as though when we come in contact with our friend we enter into a different environment. Andrew m. Greeley

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

There is an old saying which, from its truth, has become proverbial, that friendships should be immortal, enmities mortal.

There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between counsel of a friend and a flatterer.

There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self.

There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and a flatterer.

There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.

There is little friendship in the world, and least of all between equals.

There is no distance too far between friends, for friendship gives wings to the heart.

"A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are."

There is no friend as loyal as a book