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

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.

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

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.

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

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.