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

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

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

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

Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.

Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.

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