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

Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.

An excellent man he has no enemies and none of his friends like him.

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

But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

A friendship that like love is warm A love like friendship, steady.

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.

Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.