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

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

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

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

Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.

Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.

Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

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

But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.