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

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

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

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

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

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

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.

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

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