interesting quotes on friendships

By Francis Bacon "Of Friendship" : "to whom you may impart griefs, joys, fears, hopes, suspicions and whatever lieth an oppression on the heart". "To rehearse and work through my own thoughts and views in the mirror of another's mind, and gail faithful counsel on the rightness of my judgement". 

 "For without friends", write Aristotle, in the Ethics, "no one would choose to live".

 "Sir, I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance." Samuel Johnson

 "There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity." Samuel Johnson 

"This is the happiest conversation", said Samuel Johnson, "where there is no competition, no vanity, but a calm interchange of sentiments".