The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

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

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

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.

But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.

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