“Friendship however is a plant which cannot be forced -- true friendship is no gourd spring up in a night and withering in a day.”
“Our friendship is like a flowerthat seed is planted deep and realBlooms with sunshine and showerand will never wither if gives great care.”
“However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.”
“Friendship can turn into Love, but love cannot turn back into friendship again.”
“Unreal friendship may turn to real But real friendship, once ended, cannot be mended”
“Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendships and intimacies … and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to "keep" by force of mere inertia.”