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

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.

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship.