It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

Don't walk behind me I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod my shadow does that much better.

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

But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.