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

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

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.

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

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.