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

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

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

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

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.

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

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