Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.

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

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

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

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

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.

Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends.