A friendship that like love is warm A love like friendship, steady.

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.

Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship.

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

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

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

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

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

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