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

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.

Instead of loving your enemies - treat your friends a little better.

You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

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

An excellent man he has no enemies and none of his friends like him.

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