In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.

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

Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.

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

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

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

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

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.