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

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

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

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

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.

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

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

Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.

A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod my shadow does that much better.