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

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

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

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

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