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

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.

Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations entangling alliances with none.

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

Love is flower like Friendship is like a sheltering tree.

Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

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

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

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.