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

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

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

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

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.

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

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.

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.

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