Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

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

Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

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.

Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends.

Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.