Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

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

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

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

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

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

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.