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

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.

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

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

Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.