Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.

It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.

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

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

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

An excellent man he has no enemies and none of his friends like him.

In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.