Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

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

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.

True friendship is like sound health the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

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

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

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

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

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.