Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

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

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

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

Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.

Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.

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

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.

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