It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.

We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.

If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Sooner or later you've heard all your best friends have to say Then comes the tolerance of real love.

Friendship either finds or makes equals.

We die as often as we lose a friend.

To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

It is characteristic of spontaneous friendship to take on first, without enquiry and almost at first sight, the unseen doings and unspoken sentiments of our friends; the parts known give us evidence enough that the unknown parts cannot be much amiss.