It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.

In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.