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

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.

Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

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

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

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

Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

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