“It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.”

“We believe that the Statue of Liberty is an important symbol of freedom for our country.”

“Friendships are the family we make - not the one we inherit. I've always been someone to whom friendship, elective affinities, is as important as family.”

“As one gains wisdom, you will realize that the number of friends is not important as the quality of them. The characteristics of quality friendship include trust, loyalty, respect, and time.”

“We should teach our children to make friends with us, to communicate all their thoughts to us … by this we find many opportunities of teaching them important truths, almost without knowing.”

“As we grow up, we realize it becomes less important to have a ton of friends, and more important to have real ones.”

“Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.”

“We men do nothing but lie and make ourselves important. Speech was invented for the purpose of magnifying all of our sensations and impressions — perhaps so that we could believe in them.”

“How much frankness can we stand in a friend?”

“If our friends do us a service, we think they owe it to us by their title of friend. We never think that they do not owe us their friendship.”