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

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

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

Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.

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