Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

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

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

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations entangling alliances with none.

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

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.