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

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

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

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod my shadow does that much better.

Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.

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