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

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.

A friendship that like love is warm A love like friendship, steady.

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod my shadow does that much better.

Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations entangling alliances with none.

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

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.

The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights.

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

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.