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

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.

It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.

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

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

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.

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

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

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