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

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.

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

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.

Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.