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

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

In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.

Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship.

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

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

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.

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