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

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

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

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

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

Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.

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

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

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

Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.