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

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

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

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

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

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

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

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

It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod my shadow does that much better.