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

Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

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

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

The language of friendship is not words but meanings

A friendship that like love is warm A love like friendship, steady.

Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.