Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.

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

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

It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

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

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

Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.