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

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

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.

An excellent man he has no enemies and none of his friends like him.

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.

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

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod my shadow does that much better.

Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

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