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

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

A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.

Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

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

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.

Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends.