Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.

Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.

If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.