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

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

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

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

Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.

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

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

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

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.