....for friendships that are acquired by a price and not by greatness and nobility of character are purchased but are not owned, and at the proper moment they cannot be spent.
You just don't come across proper, deep, loyal friendships very easily later on in life.
I have no talent for making new friends, but oh such genius for fidelity to old ones.
If a man has a very decided character, has a strongly accentuated career, it is normally the case of course that he makes ardent friends and bitter enemies.
Why I can't stand this phrase about I don't have any permanent enemies, any permanent friends, only permanent interests. I can't stand that. It's a matter of principles. What kind of integrity, what kind of morality do you have?
I'm a pretty loyal guy with friends and family, I've had the same friends for a long time.
Though most of the friendships of the world ill deserve the name of friendships; yet a man may make use of them on occasion, as of a traffic whose returns are uncertain, and in which 'tis usual to be cheated.
I hate the prostitution of the name of friendship to signify modish and worldly alliances.
It is at moments of need that one learns who one's friends are. Defeated armies learn their lesson.
Friends are forever Boys are whatever.
Friends always forget those whom fortune forsakes.
I've got five or six amazing friends that I trust and love, I know exactly who I am and don't care about anything else.
