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

You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.

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

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

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

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.