The best time to make friends is before you need them.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

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

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

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.

Success always necessitates a degree of ruthlessness. Given the choice of friendship or success, I'd probably choose success.

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