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

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

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

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

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

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

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