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

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

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.

Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations entangling alliances with none.

Success always necessitates a degree of ruthlessness. Given the choice of friendship or success, I'd probably choose success.

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

When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.