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

A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.

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

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

Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

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

When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.

True friendship is like sound health the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.