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

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.

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

You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.

Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.

Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.