Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.

Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship.

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

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.

Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.

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

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

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

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

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