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

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

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

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

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.

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

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.