A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. Ralph Waldo Emerson
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. Alice Duer Miller
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance. Henry David Thoreau
Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness. Chanakya
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. Paramahansa Yogananda
Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts. Margaret Lee Runbeck
Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend. Plautus
Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly. Amos Bronson Alcott
Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit. Khalil Gibran
A friend is one who walks in when others walk out. Walter Winchell
Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself. Confucius
The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights. Giotto di Bondone