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

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

Success always necessitates a degree of ruthlessness. Given the choice of friendship or success, I'd probably choose success.

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

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

Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends.

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

Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.