Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.

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

It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.

You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

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

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.