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

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

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

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

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.