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.

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

Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship.

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

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

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship