Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.

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

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

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

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

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

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

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

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

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