A friendship that like love is warm A love like friendship, steady.

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.

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

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

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

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

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

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

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

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.