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

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

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

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

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

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

Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations entangling alliances with none.