Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

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

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

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

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

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

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

True friendship is like sound health the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.