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

Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

The best time to make friends is before you need them.

True friendship is like sound health the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

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

Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

A friendship that like love is warm A love like friendship, steady.

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