A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

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

Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.

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

A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.

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

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

Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.

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

Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship.