"The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend. " — Henry David Thoreau

Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does

Source: Emma (1815)

Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud

Source: The Spectator, no. 225 (1711)

The language of friendship is not words but meanings

Source: A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849)

Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend

Source: The New England Tragedies, John Endicott (1868)

Friendship: A ship big enough to carry two in fair weather, but only one in foul

Source: The Devil's Dictionary (1911)

All for one, one for all.

Source: The Three Musketeers (1844)

Henry David Thoreau Quote