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

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.

Friends are God's way of apologizing for your family.

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things, does the heart find its morning and is refreshed.

Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.

Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else.

Anybody amuses me for once. A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

If there ever comes a day when we can't be together, keep me in your heart. I'll stay there forever.

There is a magic in the memory of a schoolboy friendship. It softens the heart, and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart.

No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.

I love the friends I have gathered together on this thin raft...

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.

Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

I'm so happy. Cause today I found my friends.They're in my head.

Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.