Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

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

Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

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

The language of friendship is not words but meanings

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.