But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

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

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.

Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.

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