Without wearing any mask we are conscious of we have a special face for each friend.
It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them and important to friendship that we are not.
As iron sharpens iron so a friend sharpens a friend.
The bird a nest the spider a web man friendship.
Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends.
A friend is as it were a second self.
Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
To avoid being mistaken for a sellout I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
But friendship is the breathing rose with sweets in every fold.
Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.
If instead of a gem or even a flower we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend that would be giving as the angels give.
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confidence of their help.
It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
I always felt that the great high privilege relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.
No person is your friend who demands your silence or denies your right to grow.
Lovers have a right to betray you... friends don't.
A quarrel between friends when made up adds a new tie to friendship.
We call that person who has lost his father an orphan and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.
A true friend is the greatest of all blessings and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
If you have one true friend you have more than your share.
A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!