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

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

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.

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

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship.

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

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