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

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

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

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

But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.