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

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.

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

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

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

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.