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

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.

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

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.

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

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

Instead of loving your enemies - treat your friends a little better.

To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

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