No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

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

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

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

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

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

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.

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

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

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