Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.

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

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

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

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.

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

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

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

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