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

In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.

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

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

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

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

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

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

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

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.