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

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

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

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

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

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.

Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.

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

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.