We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and privacy: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship. The Weight of Glory and Other Addresses (1949)
The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are: that good fortune I have enjoyed for nearly twenty years. They Asked for a Paper: Papers and Addresses (1962)
Friendship, I have said, is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself..." The Four Loves (1960)
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival. The Four Loves (1960)