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.

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

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

Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.

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

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.