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

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod my shadow does that much better.

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

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

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

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

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