It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.

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

Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Don't walk behind me I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.