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

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.

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

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

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

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

Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.

Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.