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

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

It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

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

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

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.

The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.