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

Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

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

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

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

A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.

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

Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.