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

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

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

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.

Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

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

A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.