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

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

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.

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

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

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

The language of friendship is not words but meanings

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

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

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