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.

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

Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.

There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

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

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.

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

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