If there is such a thing as a good marriage it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.

Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

What sweetness is left in life if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

True friendship is like sound health the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him and to speak painful truth through loving words that is friendship.

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession friendship is never anything but sharing.

Friendship is the marriage of the soul and this marriage is liable to divorce.

What I cannot love I overlook. Is that real friendship?

The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.