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

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

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.

Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings