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

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

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.

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

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

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

If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.