The language of friendship is not words but meanings. Henry David Thoreau
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept. Samuel Butler
The better part of one’s life consists of his friendships. Abraham Lincoln
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence. Sydney Smith
Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything. Warren Harding
Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation. George Washington
Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together. Woodrow Wilson
Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which strengthens with the setting sun of life. Jean de la Fontaine
When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly. Hilaire Belloc
Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant. Socrates
Friendship is one of the sweetest joys of life. Many might have failed beneath the bitterness of their trial had they not found a friend. Charles H Spurgeon
Friendships are discovered rather than made. Harriet Beecher Stowe
Friendship is the perfection of love, and superior to love; it is love purified, exalted, proved by experience and a consent of minds. Love, Madam, may, and love does, often stop short of friendship. Samuel Richardson
Love is a blazing, crackling, green-wood flame, as much smoke as flame; friendship, married friendship particularly, is a steady, intense, comfortable fire. Love, in courtship, is friendship in hope; in matrimony, friendship upon proof. Samuel Richardson
Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does. Jane Austen
Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view. August Strindberg