Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

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

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

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.

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

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

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

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

Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.

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