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

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

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

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.

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

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.