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.

Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.

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

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

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.