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

A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.

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

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.

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

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.