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

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

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

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

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

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship

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

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

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

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