One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends.

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

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.

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

It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod my shadow does that much better.

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.