You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod my shadow does that much better.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends.

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

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

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.

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

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations entangling alliances with none.