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

Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

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

There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.

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

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

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

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

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