Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

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

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.

True friendship is like sound health the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.

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

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

To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.

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