Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

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

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.

Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

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

A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.

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

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