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

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

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

The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

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

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

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

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

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