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

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

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

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

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

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

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

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

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.