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

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

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

There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

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

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

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.

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

A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.