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

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.

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

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.

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

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

An excellent man he has no enemies and none of his friends like him.

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.