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

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

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

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

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

The best time to make friends is before you need them.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

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