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

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

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

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

There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.

When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.