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

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

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

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.

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

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

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.

Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship.