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

Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.

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

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

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

Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

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

Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.

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

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