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

Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations entangling alliances with none.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

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

Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends.