Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

Instead of loving your enemies - treat your friends a little better.

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.

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

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

Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

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