The best time to make friends is before you need them.

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.

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

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

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.