The best time to make friends is before you need them.

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

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

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

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

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

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

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

The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights.

Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.