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

In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

An excellent man he has no enemies and none of his friends like him.