Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.

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

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

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship

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

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship.

It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.

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