Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.

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

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

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

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.

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

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

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