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

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

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

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

Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

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

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

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

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

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?