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

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.

Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.

Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.

The best time to make friends is before you need them.

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends.