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

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

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

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

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod my shadow does that much better.

When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.

Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.

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