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

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

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

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.

But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

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

The language of friendship is not words but meanings

Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.

Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship.