“Friendship is often outgrown; and his former child’s clothes will no more fit a man than some of his former friendships.”

“In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.”

“I often find myself going back to Darwin's saying about the duration of a man's friendships being one of the best measures of his worth.”

“Between two married couples there are five possibilities for friendship: man to man, woman to woman, each man to the woman not his wife, and couple to couple. It's seldom that more than two of these will actually materialize.”

“Every man, as the Stoics used to say, is first and principally recommended to his own care; and every man is certainly, in every respect, fitter and abler to take care of himself than of any other person. Every man feels his own pleasures and his own pains more sensibly than those of other people. The former are the original sensations; the latter the reflected or sympathetic images of those sensations. The former may be said to be the substance; the latter the shadow.”

“Friendship is everything. Friendship is more than talent. It is more than the government. It is almost the equal of family.- Don Corleone”

“A man’s friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage—but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.”

“Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship—never.”

“Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.”

“Friendship's the wine of life; but friendship new
(Not such was his) is neither strong nor pure.”