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

In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

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

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

An excellent man he has no enemies and none of his friends like him.

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.