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

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!

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

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

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.

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.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.