No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.