Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.

You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Instead of loving your enemies - treat your friends a little better.

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

Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

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

You win the victory when you yield to friends.

The best time to make friends is before you need them.