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

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

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

A friendship that like love is warm A love like friendship, steady.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

Success always necessitates a degree of ruthlessness. Given the choice of friendship or success, I'd probably choose success.

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

Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.