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

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

The best time to make friends is before you need them.

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

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod my shadow does that much better.