Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.
Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.
Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us if we take them tenderly and truly.
Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.
There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness thinking of others first when you learn to live for others they will live for you.
He who hath many friends hath none.
The greatest gift of life is friendship and I have received it.
The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.
Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it that's the time to hold your tongue.
Love is blind friendship closes its eyes.
A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
He has no enemies but is intensely disliked by his friends.
I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.
Wishing to be friends is quick work but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
Men kick friendship around like a football but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.
An excellent man he has no enemies and none of his friends like him.
The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
When you choose your friends don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
Rare as is true love true friendship is rarer.
There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.