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

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.

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

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.

Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.

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

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.