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

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

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

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

Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.