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

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

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

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

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

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

The language of friendship is not words but meanings

The best time to make friends is before you need them.

An excellent man he has no enemies and none of his friends like him.