When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.

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

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

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

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

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.

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

A friendship that like love is warm A love like friendship, steady.