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

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

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

A friendship that like love is warm A love like friendship, steady.

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

Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.

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

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

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

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