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

Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations entangling alliances with none.

Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.

Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.

A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!