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

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

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.

Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.

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

Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.

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