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

There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.

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

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

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

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.