Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

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

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

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

It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.

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

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

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

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.