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.

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

Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.

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

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

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

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.