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

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.

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

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

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

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

If you have one true friend you have more than your share.