Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

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

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

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

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

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

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