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

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

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

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

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

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

The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

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

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.