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

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

The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights.

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

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

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

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

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

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