Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

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

Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

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

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

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.

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

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