Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.

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

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

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

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

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

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

Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations entangling alliances with none.

Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.