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

Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.

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

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

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.

Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.

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

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

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.