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

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod my shadow does that much better.

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.

Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

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

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.

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