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

Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.

Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.

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

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

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.