When two people first meet, they can only have a very ordinary kind of friendship. But when you begin to understand each other, when you get close to them, you discover that you're suddenly eager to know him or her even better.
Friendship's said to be a plant of tedious growth, its root composed of tender fibers, nice in their taste, cautious in spreading.
Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.
My first experiences of academic friendship made me smile in after years when I looked back on them. But my circle of acquaintances had gradually grown so large that it was only natural new friendships should grow out of it.
As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.
Friendship however is a plant which cannot be forced -- true friendship is no gourd spring up in a night and withering in a day.
True friends challenge us and help us to be faithful on our journey.
The growth of true friendship may be a lifelong affair.
The place where two friends first met is sacred to them all through their friendship, all the more sacred as their friendship deepens and grows old.
