The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

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

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.