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

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

Instead of loving your enemies - treat your friends a little better.

If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

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

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

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

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

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.