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

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

Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations entangling alliances with none.

Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.

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

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