There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.

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

The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.

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.

Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.

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

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

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