A friend is a present you give yourself.

A friend is a second self.

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

A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.

Acquaintance: a degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor or obscure, and intimate when he is rich or famous.

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and ...

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine.

Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact a ...