A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

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

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

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

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

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

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

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.

Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.