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

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

The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.

When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.