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

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.

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

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.

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