If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

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

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

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

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

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

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

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

The language of friendship is not words but meanings