The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

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

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.

When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.

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

The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights.

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

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

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