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

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship.