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

Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

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

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.

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

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.

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

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

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.