Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

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

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship

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

An excellent man he has no enemies and none of his friends like him.

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

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

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

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

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