Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

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

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

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

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

To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

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

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