Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

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

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

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

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.

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

A friendship that like love is warm A love like friendship, steady.

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