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

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.

Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.

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

Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.