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

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

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.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

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.

Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.

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

Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends.

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.