Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
friendship, first sight, like love, only truth
Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.
silence, conversations, friends
Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.
FRIENDSHIP, FRIENDSHIP WILL NOT CONTINUE TO THE END
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
FRIENDSHIP, DEPEND ON THE LENGTH OF ACQUAINTANCE
A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.