Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.

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

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

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

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

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.

Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.