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

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.

If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.

Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

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