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

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

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

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

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

There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.