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

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

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

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

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

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.

It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.