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

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

The best time to make friends is before you need them.

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

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

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

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