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

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

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

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

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.