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

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

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

There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.

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

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

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

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

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

Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.