The language of friendship is not words but meanings

Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

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

The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights.

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

A friendship that like love is warm A love like friendship, steady.

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.

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

But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.

There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.