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

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

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

Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship.

An excellent man he has no enemies and none of his friends like him.

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

Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.