Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

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.

Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

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

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

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends.

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.