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

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

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

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

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

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.

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

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