Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.

Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.

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

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod my shadow does that much better.

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.

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

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

Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.

When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.