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

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

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.

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

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The best time to make friends is before you need them.

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

Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.

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