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

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

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

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.