“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
“A friendship that can end never really began”
Publilius Syrus
“Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.”
Virginia Woolf
“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
“Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is slow-ripening fruit.”
Aristotle
“Life is nothing without friendship.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.”