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

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.

Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

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

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