When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.

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.

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

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

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

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

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

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

The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights.