The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

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

When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

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

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

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.

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