but good friends are nothing to each other if they are not supportive.

Maybe, he thought, there aren't any such things as good friends or bad friends — maybe there are just friends, people who stand by you when you're hurt and who help you feel not so lonely. Maybe they're always worth being scared for, and hoping for, and living for. Maybe worth dying for, too, if that's what has to be. No good friends. No bad friends. Only people you want, need to be with; people who build their houses in your heart.

If my life is of no value to my friends it is of none to myself.

He used to say that it was better to have one friend of great value than many friends who were good for nothing.

Better to have one friend of great value, than many friends who were good for nothing.

Your best friends should bring out the best in you. If they don't, lose them; they are no friends.

Friendship is always helpful, but love sometimes even does harm

You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.

What good is notoriety if your friends are unable to profit from it?

I have no duty to be anyone's Friend and no man in the world has a duty to be mine. No claims, no shadow of necessity. Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.

For the friendships which we buy with a price, and do not gain by greatness and nobility of character, though they be fairly earned are not made good, but fail us when we have occasion to use them.

There’s no such thing as friendship. You just get what you need when you need it as fast as you can. The only reason that people give is so they can take later on.

Friends are an aid to the young, to guard them from error; to the elderly, to attend to their wants and to supplement their failing power of action; to those in the prime of life, to assist them to noble deeds.

Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends : have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.