Always try to associate yourself closely with and learn as much as you can from those who know more than you, who do better than you, who see more clearly than you. Apart from the rewards of friendship, the association might pay off at some unforeseen time - that is only an accidental byproduct. The important thing is that the learning will make you a better person.

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.

You meet people who forget you. You forget people you meet. But sometimes you meet those people you can't forget. Those are your friends.

Friendship that insists upon agreement on all matters is not worth the name. Friendship to be real must ever sustain the weight of honest differences, however sharp they be.

We have learned the simple truth, as Emerson said, that "The only way to have a friend is to be one."

Don't expect your friend to be a perfect person. Help your friend to become a perfect person. That is true friendship.