It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

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

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

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

The language of friendship is not words but meanings

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.

There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.

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

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

Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.