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

Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

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

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

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

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

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

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