Friendship—our friendship—is like the beautiful shadows of evening,
Spreading and growing till life and its light pass away.
—Michael Vitkovics
That friendship will not continue to the end that is begun for an end.
—Francis Quarles
Let friendship creep gently to a height; if it rush to it, it may soon run itself out of breath.
—Thomas Fuller
Friendship must not surmise or provide for infirmity. It treats its object as a god, that it may deify both.
—Emerson
True friendship’s laws are by this rule express’d:
Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.
—Homer (Pope’s Tr.)
Real friendship is a slow grower and never thrives unless engrafted upon a stock of known and reciprocal merit.
—Lord Chesterfield