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

The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights.

Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.

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

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.