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

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

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.

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

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

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

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

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

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.