An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.

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

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

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

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

True friendship is like sound health the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.

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

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.

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