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

Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends.

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

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

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

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.

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

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.

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

Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.