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

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

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

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

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

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

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.