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

When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

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

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

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

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

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.

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

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.