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

Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship.

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

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

A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.

When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

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

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

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.