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

The language of friendship is not words but meanings

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

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

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

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

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

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