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

Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.

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

Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

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

Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

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

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.