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

Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.

The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

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

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

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.