It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.
It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them.
The man who trusts other men will make fewer mistakes than he who distrusts them.
It should be part of our private ritual to devote a quarter of an hour every day to the enumeration of the good qualities of our friends. When we are not active we fall back idly upon defects, even of those whom we most love.
Friendship admits of difference of character, as love does that of sex.
Between friends there is no need of justice.
What I cannot love, I overlook.
Treat your fiends as you do your picture, and place them in their best light.
Friendships aren't perfect and yet they are very precious. For me, not expecting perfection all in one place was a great release.
A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.
Being considerate of others will take you and your children further in life than any college or professional degree.
Nothing is ever lost by courtesy. It is the cheapest of pleasures, costs nothing, and conveys much. It pleases him who gives and receives and thus, like mercy, is twice blessed.
Truth is a rough, honest, helter-skelter terrier, that none like to see brought into their drawing rooms.
Friendship cannot live with ceremony, nor without civility.
Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.
Friends are like a pleasant park where you wish to go; while you may enjoy the flowers, you may not eat them.
Friendship is honey, but don't eat it all.
Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell him.
It's important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to our friendship that we are not.
Don't tell your friends their social faults; they will cure the fault and never forgive you.
