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

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

Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

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

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

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

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

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

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.

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