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

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

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

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

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

Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship.

The best time to make friends is before you need them.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

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

Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.