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.

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.

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.

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

If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

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

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.