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

Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

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

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

A friendship that like love is warm A love like friendship, steady.

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

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship

Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.

Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.