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

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.

Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.

Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.

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

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

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

Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.