Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship.

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

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

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

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

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.