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

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

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

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

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

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.