If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

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

There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.

Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.

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

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

In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.

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

You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.