Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends.

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.

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

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

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

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

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.