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

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod my shadow does that much better.

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

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

Love is flower like Friendship is like a sheltering tree.

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.

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