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

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

Loyalty is what we seek in friendship.

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

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

Man's best support is a very dear friend.

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

Betray a friend, and you'll often find you have ruined yourself.

There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.

You can make more friends in two months by becoming more interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you

A friend is, as it were, a second self.

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

If you go out looking for friends, you're going to find they are very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion in vice.

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

Friends are nothing but a known enemy

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

There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.

Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.