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

If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

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

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

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

Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.

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

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.