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

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

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

When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.