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

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

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

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

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.

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

The best time to make friends is before you need them.

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

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

There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.