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

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

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

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

You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

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

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

When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings