Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

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

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

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

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

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

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

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

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

Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.