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

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

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

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

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

Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship.