If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.