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

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

Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

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

But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.