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

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

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

The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.

Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations entangling alliances with none.

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

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

It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.