Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.

A friendship that like love is warm A love like friendship, steady.

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

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

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

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.

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