Friendship is the ideal; friends are the reality; reality always remains far apart from the ideal.
Have friends, not for the sake of receiving, but of giving.
We want our friend as a man of talent, less because he has talent than because he is our friend.
The man abandoned by his friends, one after another, without just cause, will acquire, the reputation of being hard to please, changeable, ungrateful, unsociable.
Friends are rare for, the good reason that men are not common.
