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

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

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

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

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

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

A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.

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

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.