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

Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.

Love is flower like Friendship is like a sheltering tree.

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

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.

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