True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

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

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

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

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

Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.

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

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

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.