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

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

An excellent man he has no enemies and none of his friends like him.

Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations entangling alliances with none.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

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.