Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.

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

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

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

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

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

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

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

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.