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

Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

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

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

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

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