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

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.

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

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

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

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

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

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

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