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

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

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

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.

Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.

An excellent man he has no enemies and none of his friends like him.

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.

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

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.