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

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship.

It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.