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.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

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

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.