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

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.

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

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

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

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

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.