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

Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.

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

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

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

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

Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations entangling alliances with none.

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

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