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

Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

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

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

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

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

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.