Friendship is love without its flowers or veil. Hare.
Friendship is love without its wings. Byron.
Friendship is no plant of hasty growth. Joanna Baillie.
Friendship is one soul in two bodies. Porphyry. 30
Friendship is stronger than kindred. Pub. Syr.
Friendship is the greatest bond in the world. Jeremy Taylor.
Friendship is the ideal; friends are the reality; the reality always remains far apart from the ideal. Joseph Roux.
Friendship is the marriage of the soul. Voltaire.
Friendship is the shadow of the evening, 35 which strengthens with the setting sun of life. La Fontaine.
Friendship is too pure a pleasure for a mind cankered with ambition or the lust of power and grandeur. Junius.