Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

True friendship is like sound health the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.

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

Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends.

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.