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

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

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

If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

True friendship is like sound health the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.

A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.