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

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

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

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

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.

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

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

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

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