Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.
Friendship is something that is cultivated.
Friendship is a sheltering tree.
False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.
In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.
Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?
Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.
Acquaintances we meet, enjoy, and can easily leave behind; but friendship grows deep roots.
Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.