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

If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

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

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

Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.

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

I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

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