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

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

The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

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

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

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

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

Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.