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

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.

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

Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends.

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.

Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

True friendship is like sound health the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

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

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.