It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

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

A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!

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

In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.