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

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

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

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.

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.

Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.