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

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod my shadow does that much better.

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

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

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

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

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.

Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.