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

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

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

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.

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

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

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

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

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.

If you have one true friend you have more than your share.