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

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

Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

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

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.

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

Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.