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

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

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

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings

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

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

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

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.