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

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

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

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

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

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

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

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.