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

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.

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

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

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

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

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

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

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

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.