Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.

A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.

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

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

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

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

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.