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

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

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.

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

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

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