It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.

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

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

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.

Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.

Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.

There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.