Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

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

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.

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

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

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.