Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

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

An excellent man he has no enemies and none of his friends like him.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

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

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

A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!

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

Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.