Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

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

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

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

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

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

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