One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

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

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

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

Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

Success always necessitates a degree of ruthlessness. Given the choice of friendship or success, I'd probably choose success.

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.