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

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

True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

Flattery looks like friendship, just like a wolf looks like a dog.

Flattery looks like friendship, just like a wolf looks like a dog.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.'

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.'

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for read more

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. read more

The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people, evoked as it is by many qualities.