There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.

A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.

Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights.

Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.