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

Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.

Success always necessitates a degree of ruthlessness. Given the choice of friendship or success, I'd probably choose success.

It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

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

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.