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

The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

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

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

An excellent man he has no enemies and none of his friends like him.

Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

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

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

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