I keep my friends as misers do their treasure because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.
There is only one thing better than making a new friend, and that is keeping an old one.
The only way not to break a friendship is not to drop it.
To throw away an honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away.
Hold a true friend with both your hands.
None is so rich as to throw away a friend.
Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel.
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
We die as often as we lose a friend.
Affinities are rare. They come but a few times in a life. It is awful to risk losing one when it arrives.
Rather throw away that which is dearest to you, your own life, than turn away a good friend.
Thine own friend, and thy father's friend, forsake not.
The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.
I never enter a new company without the hope that I may discover a friend, perhaps the friend, sitting there with an expectant smile. That hope survives a thousand disappointments.
If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone.
A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
Every man passes his life in the search after friendship.
What causes us to like new acquaintances is not so much weariness of our old ones, or the pleasure of change, as disgust at not being sufficiently admired by those who know us too well, and the hope of being admired more by those who do not know so much about us.
A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.
To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time.
