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

The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights.

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

A friendship that like love is warm A love like friendship, steady.

But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.

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

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

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