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

I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

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

Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.

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

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

Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship.

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.