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

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

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.

Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.

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

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

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