When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.

In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.

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

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

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

The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

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

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.

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