Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.

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

There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.

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

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

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

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

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

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

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.