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

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

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

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

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

The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights.

To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.