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

To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

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

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.

If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

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

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

But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.