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

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

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

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.

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

Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship.

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

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

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.