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

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

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

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

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

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

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

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

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.