Do Not Be Content With Showing Friendship In Words Alone, Let Your Heart Burn With Loving Kindness For All Who May Cross Your Path.
~ Abdul Baha, Paris Talks, p. 15

Be Courteous To All, But Intimate With Few, And Let Those Few Be Well Tried Before You Give Them Your Confidence. True Friendship Is A Plant Of Slow Grow, And Must Undergo And Withstand The Shocks Of Adversity Before It Is Entitled To The Appellation.
~ George Washington

There Can Be No Friendship Without Confidence, And No Confidence Without Integrity.
~ Samuel Johnson

The Finest Kind Of Friendship Is Between People Who Expect A Great Deal Of Each Other But Never Ask It.
~ Sylvia Breme

Love Is An Alliance Of Friendship And Animalism; If The Former Predominates It Is Passion Exalted And Refined; If The Latter, Gross And Sensual.
~ C. C. Colton

A Passion For Politics Stems Usually From An Insatiable Need, Either For Power, Or For Friendship And Adulation, Or A Combination Of Both.
~ Fawn M. Brodie

Real Friendship Is Shown In Times Of Trouble Prosperity Is Full Of Friends.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wishing To Be Friends Is Quick Work, But Friendship Is Slow-ripening Fruit.
~ Aristotle

Women Can Form A Friendship With A Man Very Well But To Preserve It--to That End A Slight Physical Antipathy Must Probably Help.
~ George Jean Nathan

Do You Know What Friendship Is... It Is To Be Brother And Sister; Two Souls Which Touch Without Mingling, Two Fingers On One Hand.
~ Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Chapter 13

True Friendship Is Like Sound Health; The Value Of It Is Seldom Known Until It Be Lost.
~ Charles Caleb Colton

Love Is Blind Friendship Closes Its Eyes.
~ Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche