A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.

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

Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.

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

In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.

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