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.

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

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

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

The language of friendship is not words but meanings

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.

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

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.