A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Friendship is something that is cultivated.
Friendship is a sheltering tree.
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 like money, easier made than kept.
Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.
A friend is a beloved mystery; dearest always because he is not ourself, and has something in him which it is impossible for us to fathom. If it were not so, friendship would lose its chief zest.
But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.
The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Friendships are fragile things, and require as much handling as any other fragile and precious thing.