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

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

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

Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights.

Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.

Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

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

Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.