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.

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

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings