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

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

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

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.