Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends.

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

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

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

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

An excellent man he has no enemies and none of his friends like him.

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.