Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice.

Friendship improves happiness, abates misery by doubling our joy and dividing our grief.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

Some people are willing to betray years of friendship just to get a little bit of the spotlight.

To embrace the whole world in friendship is wisdom. This wisdom is not changeable like the flowers that bloom and fade.

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

The joys of friendship inert the heart and fizzy home bouncing jubilantly with laughter-buttered love.

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.

I love life in spite of all that mars it. I love friendship, jokes and laughter.

The sacrifices of friendship were beautiful in her eyes as long as she was not asked to make them.