Friendship:

1. One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.
-- Henry Brooks Adams
1838-1918, American Historian

2. Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.
-- Joseph Addison
1672-1719, British Essayist, Poet, Statesman

3.Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.
-- Joseph Addison
1672-1719, British Essayist, Poet, Statesman

4. The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
-- Joseph Addison
1672-1719, British Essayist, Poet, Statesman

5. The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
-- Joseph Addison
1672-1719, British Essayist, Poet, Statesman

6. Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.
-- Amos Bronson Alcott
1799-1888, American Educator, Social Reformer

7. Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.
-- Louisa May Alcott
1832-1888, American Author

8. A faithful friend is the medicine of life.
-- Apocrypha