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

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

True friendship is like sound health the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

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

Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.

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

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