The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship

The best time to make friends is before you need them.

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

When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.

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

A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.

Success always necessitates a degree of ruthlessness. Given the choice of friendship or success, I'd probably choose success.

I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod my shadow does that much better.