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

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

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

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

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

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

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship.

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

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