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

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

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

Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.

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

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

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