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

Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends.

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

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

Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

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

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.