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

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

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

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

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

Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

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

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

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