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

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.

Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

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

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

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

An excellent man he has no enemies and none of his friends like him.

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.