A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

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

Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.

A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.

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

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

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

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.