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

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod my shadow does that much better.

Success always necessitates a degree of ruthlessness. Given the choice of friendship or success, I'd probably choose success.

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

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.

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

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.