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

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

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

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.

Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.

The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights.