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

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Success always necessitates a degree of ruthlessness. Given the choice of friendship or success, I'd probably choose success.

A friendship that like love is warm A love like friendship, steady.

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

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

Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.