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

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

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.

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

Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.