Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

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

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

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

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.