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

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

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

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

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

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.

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.

Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship.