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

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

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

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

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

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

Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.

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

Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.