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

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

Love is flower like Friendship is like a sheltering tree.

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

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.

Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship.

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

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 at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.