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

Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.

I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

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

The best time to make friends is before you need them.

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

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