Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

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

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

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

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

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

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

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

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

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.