Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

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

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

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

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

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

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

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

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

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