The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

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

The language of friendship is not words but meanings

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

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.

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