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

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

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

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

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.

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

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

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

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