Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

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

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

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

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.

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

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

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.