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

Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

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

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

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.

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

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

Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.