A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

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

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.

To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

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