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

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.

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

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

Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.

Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.

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

Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.

Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.