To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

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

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

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.

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

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

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

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

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.