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

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

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

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

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

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