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

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!

You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

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

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.