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

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

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

A friendship that like love is warm A love like friendship, steady.

A friendship that like love is warm A love like friendship, steady.

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights.