The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

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

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

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.

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

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

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.