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

Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things human and divine conjoined with mutual goodwill and affection.

How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

If one of two lovers is loyal, and the other jealous and false, how may their friendship last, for Love is slain!

“One’s community of friends and relationships may evolve with time; even seasoned friendships may not last forever.”

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man but for this to endure it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

You don't just luck into things. ... You build step by step whether it's friendships or opportunities.

The firmest friendships have been formed in mutual adversity as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame.

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef love like being enlivened with champagne.