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.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings

Love is flower like Friendship is like a sheltering tree.

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod my shadow does that much better.

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

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

Success always necessitates a degree of ruthlessness. Given the choice of friendship or success, I'd probably choose success.

Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.