Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
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 growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.
Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.
A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.
Friendship is the happiest and most fully human of all loves, the crown of life.
What I cannot love, I overlook, is that real friendship.
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.