A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
Saint Basil

The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.
Samuel Johnson

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.
Samuel Johnson

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.
Samuel Johnson

Although the troops have struck us, we throw it all behind and are glad to meet you in peace and friendship.
Black Kettle

For me my friendship with Omar Rodriguez from Mars Volta that friendship really means a lot to me because he's another creative person who works as hard as I do.
John Frusciante

What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Friendship is a sheltering tree.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Friendship and money: oil and water.
Mario Puzo

All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike, friendship, anger or pity.
Sallust

All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.
Sallust

The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.
Sallust

To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.
Sallust

The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him.
Harry Emerson Fosdick

There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.
Thomas Fuller