Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

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

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

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

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

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

If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.