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

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

True friendship is like sound health the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.

Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.

But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.

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

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

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

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