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

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

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

If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

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

Instead of loving your enemies - treat your friends a little better.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

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

Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.