A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

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

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

Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.

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

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

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