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

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

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

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

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

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

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

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.

Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.