The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

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

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

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

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

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

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.