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

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.

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

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

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

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

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