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

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

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

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

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

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

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

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

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.