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

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

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.

If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

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

To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.

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

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.