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

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

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

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

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.

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

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

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

Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.