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

Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.

An excellent man he has no enemies and none of his friends like him.

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

In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.

The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.

Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.

The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

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

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.