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

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

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

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

Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.