An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.

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

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

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.

Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations entangling alliances with none.

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

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.