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

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

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

Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.

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

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

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.

Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.

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

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