A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.

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

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

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

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

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

Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.