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

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

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

But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

The best time to make friends is before you need them.

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

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod my shadow does that much better.

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.