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

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

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

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

Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.

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

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