Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

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

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.

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

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

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

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.

Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.