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

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

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

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

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

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

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.