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

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

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

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

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

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.

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

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