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

Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.

An excellent man he has no enemies and none of his friends like him.

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

Love is flower like Friendship is like a sheltering tree.

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.

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

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

Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.