Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.

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

True friendship is like sound health the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

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

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

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

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

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

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