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

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

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.

Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.

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

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

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