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

Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

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

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

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

Don't walk behind me I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

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

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