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

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

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

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

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

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