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

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

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

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

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

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

A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.

But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.