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

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

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

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

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

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

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

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.