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

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.

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

Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

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

Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

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

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

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