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

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

Love is flower like Friendship is like a sheltering tree.

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.

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

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

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