Friendship is one of the sweetest joys of life. Many might have failed beneath the bitterness of their trial had they not found a friend.

For what is your friend that you should seek him with hours to kill?

Seek him always with hours to live.

For it is his to fill your need, but not your emptiness.

And in th sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

Friendship, a dear balm...
A smile among dark frowns: a beloved light: A solitude, a refuge, a delight.

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade but in the sunshine of life; & thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine. I will recur for proof to the days we have lately passed. On these indeed the sun shone brightly.

Some of life's best pleasures are simplest ones. Enrich your life with more of them and your heart will be happy.

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is by far the best ending for one.

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover

How easy is it for one benevolent being to diffuse pleasure around him, and how truly is a kind heart a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity to freshen into smiles.

Friendship is a delightful thing when you have had the good judgment to choose the right friends.

Where friendship blooms, life is reborn.

And that is the beautiful thing about friendship: we can take liberties, we can show our frailer side, we can afford the vast luxury of giving way to our boredom when we are bored, our anger when we are angry, our peckishness when we feel downhearted.

For one can live in friendship
With verses and with cards, with Plato and with wine,
And hide beneath the gentle cover of our playful pranks
A noble heart and mind.

The happiest of all things is when an old friend comes and greets us as in former times; the heart is comforted with the assurance that some day everything that we have loved will be given back

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.