The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

Henry David Thoreau

The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?

Henry David Thoreau

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

Jean de La Fontaine

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

Thomas Jefferson

Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache do be my enemy--for friendship's sake.

William Blake

There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.

Henry Ward Beecher

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Michel de Montaigne

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Friedrich Nietzsche

There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.

Samuel Johnson

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

Khalil Gibran

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

Thomas Jefferson

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

Khalil Gibran

Friendship is the sweet melody that accompanies us as we dance through life's joys and sorrows.

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Friendship is the sweet melody that plays in the background of our lives, bringing harmony to every moment.

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.

Rabindranath Tagore

Friendship is the foundation of love, kindness, and understanding.

I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

Pietro Aretino

A cat's friendship is a precious gift, filled with trust, loyalty, and endless affection.

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

Jean de La Fontaine

To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.

William Hazlitt

I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.

Henry David Thoreau

The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.

Samuel Johnson