Love is flower like Friendship is like a sheltering tree.

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

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

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

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

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

Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.