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

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.

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

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

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

A friendship that like love is warm A love like friendship, steady.

Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.

You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

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