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

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

A friendship that like love is warm A love like friendship, steady.

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.

When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.