As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.

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

The best time to make friends is before you need them.

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

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

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

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.

A friendship that like love is warm A love like friendship, steady.

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