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

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

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

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

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

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.

A friendship that like love is warm A love like friendship, steady.

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

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

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