A friend may be nature's most magnificent creation.

The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.

I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal, that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off, and may deal with him with the simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.