The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

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

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.

Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

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

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.

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.