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.

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

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.

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

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.

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