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

Instead of loving your enemies - treat your friends a little better.

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.

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

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.

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

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.