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

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.

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

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.

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

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.