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

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

True friendship is like sound health the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

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

Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.