My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

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

Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship.

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

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

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

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

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

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.