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

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.

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

Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.

The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.

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

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

Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.

Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.

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