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

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations entangling alliances with none.

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

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

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.