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 gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

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

Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

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

Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings