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

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

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.

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

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod my shadow does that much better.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

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

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.