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

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

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

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

When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.

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