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

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

Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

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

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

Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations entangling alliances with none.

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

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

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