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

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

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

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

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

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

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.