A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

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

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.

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

Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.

Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.

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

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.