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

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

Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

True friendship is like sound health the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.