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

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

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

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

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

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

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

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

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.