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

Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

A friendship that like love is warm A love like friendship, steady.

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

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

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

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.

Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.