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

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

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

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.

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

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

Love is flower like Friendship is like a sheltering tree.

You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.