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

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

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

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

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

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

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.