Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

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

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

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

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

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

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

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

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

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.