"Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty."
Sicilian Proverb
"If a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it."
Edgar Watson Howe
"The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart."
Elisabeth Foley
"He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, and he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing."
Katherine Mansfield