It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.

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

Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.

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

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.

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

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

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

There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.