Real friendship is like fluorescence; it shines better when everything has darkened.

Probably no one here knows I coached a football team - a service team - playing against Georgetown. I think it was in the fall of 1924 Lou Little was your coach, and he beat us. But it was a very happy circumstance, because it brought me the friendship of another man, Lou Little, who to this day remains my very warm associate and friend.

The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.

Marriage was contrived for ordinary people, for people who are capable of neither great love nor great friendship, which is to say, for most people, but also for those exceptionally rare ones who are capable of love as well as of friendship.

The best friend will probably acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is founded on the talent for friendship.

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.