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

But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.

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

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

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

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

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

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

Love is flower like Friendship is like a sheltering tree.

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.