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

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

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

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.

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

Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

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