I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.

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

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.