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

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

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.

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

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

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