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

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

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

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

There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness thinking of others first when you learn to live for others they will live for you.

He who hath many friends hath none.

The greatest gift of life is friendship and I have received it.

Be slow in choosing a friend slower in changing.

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.

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

If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it that's the time to hold your tongue.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

Love is blind friendship closes its eyes.

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

He has no enemies but is intensely disliked by his friends.

You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.

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

It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.

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

Wishing to be friends is quick work but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

Men kick friendship around like a football but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.