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

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

Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

Love is flower like Friendship is like a sheltering tree.

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

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.