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

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

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

True friendship is like sound health the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.

Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations entangling alliances with none.

Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.