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

Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

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

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

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

If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.