Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

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

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

If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.