There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.

Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship.

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

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

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

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

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

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

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

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.