You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

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

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

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

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.

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.