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

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

If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

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.

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

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

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

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

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.