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

Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.

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

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

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

When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.

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

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.

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

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.