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

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

Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

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

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.