When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.

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

A friendship that like love is warm A love like friendship, steady.

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

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

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

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