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

It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.

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

Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.

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

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

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

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