A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.

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

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

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

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

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

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