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

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

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

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

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

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

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

Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.