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

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

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.

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

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

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