Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

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

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

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

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

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

Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.

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

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

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