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

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.

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

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights.

It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.

Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

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

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.