A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

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

It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod my shadow does that much better.

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

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

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