Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.

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

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

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

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

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

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