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

Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations entangling alliances with none.

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.

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

The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

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

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

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

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.