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

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

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

Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.

There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

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