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

Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.

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

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

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.

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

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