“Adversity shows whether we have friends, or only the shadows of friends.”

“In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.”

“In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that is not exactly displeasing.”

“Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.”

“Adversity does teach who your real friends are.”

“Jace sighed. "Shall we join our annoying, voyeuristic friends?"
"Unfortunately, that's the only kind of friends we have.”

“You need not wonder whether you should have an unreliable person as a friend. An unreliable person is nobody's friend.”

“My shadow serves as the friend I crave.”

“Back, n. That part of your friend which it is your privilege to contemplate in your adversity.”

“A book of poems should have almost as many dedications as titles for the poet must always sing for some friend whether the friend knows it or not”