True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

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

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

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.

Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

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

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

Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations entangling alliances with none.

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod my shadow does that much better.