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

In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.

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

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

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.

When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.

When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.