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

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

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

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

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

Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.

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

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