It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.

There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

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

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

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.

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