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.

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.

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.

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

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

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

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.