Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

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

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

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

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.

In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.

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

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

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