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

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.

When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod my shadow does that much better.

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

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

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.