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

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

True friendship is like sound health the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

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

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.

But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.

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

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

When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.