A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

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

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

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

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

But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.

To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

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