Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

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

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

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

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.

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

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

If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

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