One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

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

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

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

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

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

Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.