A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.

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

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

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

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

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

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

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

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!