Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.

Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

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

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

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.

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

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.