Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

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

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

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

When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

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.

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.