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

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship

There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.

Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

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