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

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

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

True friendship is like sound health the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

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

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.