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

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

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

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

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

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.

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

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

The language of friendship is not words but meanings

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