When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.

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

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

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

The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

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

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

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