A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

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.

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

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

Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

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

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.