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

It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.

Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.

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

Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.

Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations entangling alliances with none.

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

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