A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.

Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

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

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.

Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations entangling alliances with none.

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

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

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.

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

Love is flower like Friendship is like a sheltering tree.