A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

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.

Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.

Love is flower like Friendship is like a sheltering tree.

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

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

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

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