He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies.

Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.

I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

Natural affection is a prejudice; for though we have cause to love our nearest connections better than others, we have no reason to think them better than others.

Friendship is cemented by interest, vanity, or the want of amusement; it seldom implies esteem, or even mutual regard.

The youth is better than the old age of friendship.

To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.

Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.