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

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.

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

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

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

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

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.