Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
Instead of loving your enemies – treat your friends a little better.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.
An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.
Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other’s little failings.
Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often – just to save it from drying out completely.
The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights.
Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference.
Friendship and money: oil and water.
I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.
But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.
Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.
If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.
He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
How delightful to find a friend in everyone.
Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.
Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.
He who hath many friends hath none.
Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.
My friends are my estate.
