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

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

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

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

The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.

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