It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.

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

Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

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

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

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