Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.

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

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.

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

Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!

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

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.