A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!

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

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

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

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

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.

An excellent man he has no enemies and none of his friends like him.

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.