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

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

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

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

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

Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.

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

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

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

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.