Love is flower like Friendship is like a sheltering tree.

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

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

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

Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.

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

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.