The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights.

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

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

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

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship

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

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

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

Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.