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

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

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.

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

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

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.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.