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

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

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

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

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

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

True friendship is like sound health the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

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