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

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

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.

The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights.

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.

The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

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