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

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

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

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

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.

Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.

When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.