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

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.

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

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.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.

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

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

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