Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.

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

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

True friendship is like sound health the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

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

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

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

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

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