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

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

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

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

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

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

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.

A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.

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