Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.

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

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

When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.

The best time to make friends is before you need them.

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

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

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.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.