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

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

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

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

The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights.

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.