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

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.

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

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.

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

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

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

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

Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations entangling alliances with none.