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

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

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod my shadow does that much better.

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

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.

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

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

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

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