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

Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.

You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

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

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

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

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.