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

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

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

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

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

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

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

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

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.