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

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

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

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.

The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.

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

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.