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

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

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

It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.

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

Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.

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

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.