“Friends are born, not made, and Henry never mistook a friend except when in power. From the first slight meeting in February and March, 1861, he recognized Hay as a friend, and never lost sight of him at the future crossing of their paths.”

“My books are friends that never fail me."

(; 17 March 1817)”

“Friends are born, not made.”

“He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, while he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.”

“Never forget that once upon a time, in an unguarded moment, you recognized yourself as a friend.”

“If you want to keep a friend, never test him.”

“When I first met him, he did not care if a friend did not fit into his world, because at that time his world had not been born yet.”

“And so my child and I came to this place
To meet him eye to eye and face to face.
He made my daughter laugh, then we embraced.
We never knew what friends we had
Until we came to Leningrad.”

“The boss is never your friend, even if you're sleeping with him.”

“He had once thought it was strange to have a friend you'd never met. Now it was even stranger, losing a friend you'd never really had”