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

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

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

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

Friends... they cherish one another's dreams. They are kind to one another's dreams

The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights.