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

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

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

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

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

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.