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

Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

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

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.

Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.

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

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

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

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.