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

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

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

In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.

Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship.

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

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.