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

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

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

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

A friendship that like love is warm A love like friendship, steady.

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

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

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

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

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