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

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

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

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

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

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

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

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