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

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

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

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

Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.