True friendship is like sound health the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

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.

But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.

Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.