“Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.”
Kahlil Gibran
“No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.”
Robert Southey
“Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is slow-ripening fruit.”
Aristotle
“An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship.”
Oscar Wilde
“The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?”
Henry David Thoreau
“But friendship is precious, not only in shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine”
Thomas Jefferson
“Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.”
Virginia Woolf