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

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.

Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.

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

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

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

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

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.