Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

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

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

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

It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

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

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