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

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship

An excellent man he has no enemies and none of his friends like him.

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

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

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

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

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

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.