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.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

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

When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.

The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.

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

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.