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

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

Love is flower like Friendship is like a sheltering tree.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

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

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

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

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

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