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

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.

A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

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.

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.

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

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.