A man growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

Love is blind friendship closes its eyes.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

If it is very painful for you to criticize your friends - you are safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that is the time to hold your tongue.

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

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

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

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

He who hath many friends hath none.

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.

Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.

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

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

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

A friend is one who walks in when others walk out.

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights.