There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.

Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.

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

Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.

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

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

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

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

Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

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