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

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

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

Instead of loving your enemies - treat your friends a little better.

Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

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

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

There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.

Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.