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

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

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

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

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

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

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.