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

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

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

But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.

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

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

When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.

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

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.