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

Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship.

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.

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

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

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

There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.

A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.