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

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.

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

The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

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

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