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

Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.

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

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.

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

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.