My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

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

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

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

Love is flower like Friendship is like a sheltering tree.

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.