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

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

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

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship.

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

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

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

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