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

Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship.

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

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

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.

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

It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

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