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

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

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

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.

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

Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.