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.

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

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

Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.

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

A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.