It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.

When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.

Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.

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

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends.