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

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.

When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.

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

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.

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

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

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