Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

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

There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.

The best time to make friends is before you need them.

Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends.

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

Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod my shadow does that much better.

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

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