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

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

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

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship.

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

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

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?